11 ways the int’l community has supported the Palestinian hunger strike

June 7, 2017, 1:48 pm

It has been more than 25 day since a number of Palestinian prisoners started a hunger strike.

And although Israeli police have vainly sought to discredit the campaign, releasing outdated footage that allegedly showed the campaign’s leader, Marwan Barghouthi, breaking fast in secret, it doesn’t look like neither the prisoners nor their supporters will relent anytime soon.

Slowly but surely, the support for the movement keeps gaining momentum.

Let’s take a look.

The #saltwaterchallenge was launched on April 24 by Aarab Barghouthi, the son of Marwan Barghouthi.

The video in which Aarab announced the campaign went viral, garnering support from sympathizers, activists and celebrities the world over.

On April 27, five students from the University of Manchester declared a hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners.

“Decades ago, university students were key in demanding the end of apartheid of South Africa. University students have paid a key role in many anti-racist struggles, including Black Lives Matter. The struggle for justice for the Palestinians is no different; they have 70 years of unremitting mistreatment, including thousands of deaths, systemic expulsions, institutional racism and apartheid. We stand in solidarity with them.” – one of the five hunger strikers told Middle East Monitor

MEPs protests outside the Brussels Parliament’s Chamber to highlight the plight of 1,500 Palestinian prisoners who are on hunger strike pic.twitter.com/8oSAXsIQCb

The sit-in was organized by the Chair of Delegation for relations with Palestine Neoklis Sylikiotis, and took place at the European parliament in Brussels, Belgium.

Lattouf’s sketches have consistently shed light on the plight of the Palestinian prisoners and the Palestinian cause in general.

On May 7, more than 1,500 activists in Morocco joined a 24 hour mass hunger strike. The activists hailed from more than 50 cities from across the country according to a statement by The Moroccan Coalition for Palestine and Anti-normalization with Israel campaign.

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It has been more than 25 day since a number of Palestinian prisoners started a hunger strike. And although Israeli police have vainly sought to discredit the campaign, releasing outdated footage that allegedly showed the campaign’s leader, Marwan Barghouthi, breaking fast in secret, it doesn’t look like neither the prisoners nor their supporters will relent anytime […]